"This..."
The gray-robed immortal clerks exchanged looks, then turned troubled gazes toward the scarlet, ferocious bird swaggering before them.
After so many years grinding away in a quiet office like the Imperial Horse Immortal Bureau, receiving and seeing off visitors, even a block of wood would have learned a thing or two.
Under these circumstances, how could they fail to see what was happening?
This was clearly an attempt to put the newly appointed seal-bearing official in her place.
Whether in a mortal dynasty or the Heavenly Court, such things were hardly uncommon.
It was simply bullying the newcomer, taking the opportunity to blunt her edge.
To make her understand who really called the shots around here.
Had she been someone ordinary, that would have been one thing, with neither a powerful background nor strength enough to intimidate others.
Faced with such an opening show of force, she could only swallow her broken teeth along with her blood and meekly endure it.
But the problem was... anyone who wasn't blind could see that Official Jiang's backing was anything but ordinary.
She had Chief Cao of the Merit Assessment Bureau, a Subordinate Seventh Rank official, personally running about to guide her, and had subdued those insufferably arrogant Painting-Realm Great Demons in the pasture in the dead of night until they dared not even let out a fart.
Was someone so fearsome really worth provoking?
The immortal clerks stood frozen, caught between advancing and retreating.
Noticing the hesitation and timidity of the clerks around him, Red Erlang frowned in displeasure.
He was no fool, of course. After years in the Heavenly Court, he had picked up some of officialdom's habits and could naturally detect something amiss in their expressions.
Usually, whenever he, Red Second Master, spoke, which of these menial workers didn't